The books I reviewed during my August WAMC vist: I Curse the River of Time – Per Petterson / Fur, Fortune and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America – Eric Jay Dolin / Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront – Nathan Ward / Saratoga in Bloom – Janet Loughrey / Drawn to the Land: The Romance of Farming – Elizabeth J. Cockey and Barton M. Cockey / Tinkers – Paul Harding / Little Bee – Chris Cleave (Adult Book Club Pick for 9/2) / The Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm Series) – Michael Buckley / Wishing for Tomorrow: The Sequel to A Little Princess – Hilary McKay (3rd/4th Grade Book Club Pick) / My Kindergarten – Rosemary Wells / The Pirate’s Guide to First Grade – By James Preller, Illustrated by Greg Ruth
From the category archives:
WAMC Book Picks
To listen to Connie’s Book Picks on WAMC, click here. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende Chef by Jaspreet Singh Castle by J. Robert Lennon Coop: A Family, A Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg by Michael Perry Animal Factory by David [...]
Below are the books I spoke about on WAMC’s Roundtable this morning. The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (St. Martins Press, 2010) Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt (Dutton, 2009) Mapping New York by Black Dog Publishing, 2009 Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy from [...]
My debut on The Roundtable’s Book Picks was this morning (on WAMC). I had a blast and Joe Donahue is such a gracious host. To listen to the clip, click here. Here are the books I mentioned, in the order I talked about them: Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals photographs by [...]
